Lexus plant cutting workforce

I have no idea how to spell the sound I made when I read the headline on this story, about Toyota cutting workers at a Lexus plant in Japan. The sound was something like, blwah!

It’s shocking to think Toyota would lay off any workforce, much less a workforce in Japan. But then you read the fine print. It cut 800 contract workers. Those are workers like the 200 Toyota cut here. They’re the cushion Toyota gives itself so it can reduce production without laying off any of its full-time team members.

Still, to think that 800 people are losing their jobs because we can’t buy enough luxury vehicles. What’s wrong with you people?!